Our best guess is that Scobee and Seabass were at an offseason kickers convention, drowning their sorrows of playing for cellar dwellers, and after a few too many sips of sherry, Janikowski half-truth joked about hating kicking on dirt.

Scobee then broke the kickers' code by telling reporters. What happens at kickers conventions, stays at kickers conventions.

We're sure Janikowski is an A's fan. The deeper the A's make it in the playoffs, the less heat his Raiders team will take for losing home games.

UPDATE: On Friday, Scobee told The Florida Times-Union's Gene Frenette that he called Janikowski to say that he was just kidding about the A's comments and things have been smoothed over with the Raiders kicker.

Scobee says he shouldn't have said in jest. "I obviously shouldn't have joked around about it." he made peace with Janikowski, a friend